One Virginian helped swing Kerry's defeat [One Virginian with powerful 'friends']

Roanoke.com ^ | November 30, 2004 | By Ed Lynch

[johnny7]

Chris LaCivita heads Progress for America, a 501c4 organisation founded in 2001 by Republican consultant, Tony Feather.

Tony Feather is a partner in Feather Larson & Synhorst DCI and served as political director for Bush/Cheney 2000. Considered a Washington power broker, thanks to some friends named Karl Rove, Joe M. Allbaugh, Ken Mehlman, Donald L. Evans and Jack Oliver, Feather has been on the cutting edge of a major shift in GOP tactics.

Out of the billion dollars spent by the dem 501's... the $27 million the Swifties spent was guided by men in very high places.

[AppyPappy]

Spin.

Kerry lost Virginia because Virginians liked Bush better than Kerry. That's the bottom line.

[Ace's Dad]

Kerry lost Virginia because Virginians liked Bush better than Kerry. That's the bottom line.

Kerry lost Virginia, in part because veterans liked Bush over Kerry, as well.

[SFC Chromey]

Kerry lost because more people nationwide did not want Frankenstien for President.

[ORECON]

I believe we would have President Elect Kerry right now if it hadn’t been for the Swift Boat Veterans For Truth ads. Thanks Swifties, you saved us from a communist president.

[Hermann the Cherusker]

Chris LaCivita heads Progress for America, a 501c4 organisation founded in 2001 by Republican consultant, Tony Feather.

Tony Feather is a partner in Feather Larson & Synhorst DCI and served as political director for Bush/Cheney 2000. Considered a Washington power broker, thanks to some friends named Karl Rove, Joe M. Allbaugh, Ken Mehlman, Donald L. Evans and Jack Oliver, Feather has been on the cutting edge of a major shift in GOP tactics.

Thank you for posting this.

Swiftees had two degrees of seperation to Karl Rove.

I recall being excoriated for theorizing that although not directly connected to the BC04 campaign, the Swiftees were getting very good advice from closely connected people who knew just what to do.

This confirms that. I'm glad our side isn't stupid.

[Coldwater Creek]

Kerry lost Virginia because it always was a red state, and the military voting officers did a bang up job of registering and shaming their people into voting.

[stainlessbanner]

over here Tonk

[KoRn]

VA is a solid Bush State winning by 9% points isn't close, that's a comfortable win. Bush did better in 2004 than he did in 2000. In 2000 Bush only carried VA by 7% points.

This is just spin from a liberal paper to create a non news story. The Roanoke Times is a liberal news paper located in the most pro Bush part of the state, SW VA (where I live). Sometimes that paper is good for a few laughs.

[twigs]

I agree. They did a great job of placing a seed of doubt that began to grow. My husband is a dem who voted for Bush and the Swifties helped him along. While I think that he would have voted for him anyway, their ads helped him to solidify his choice. He simply believed them over Kerry. And because of that, really began to see Kerry as the worst kind of liar. And because of Unfit for Command, saw Kerry as a communist still supporting their cause.

[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

"...The 2004 Swift Boat story began at the National Press Club in May, when the anti-Kerry veterans held a press conference. Except for a short and snide article on the inside pages of the New York Times, the event was completely ignored by the mainstream media. If the media’s intention was to assist Kerry by ignoring his critics, the strategy backfired in an historic fashion..."

FReepers followed this story since May.

Both right wing and left wing media "discovered" this story in August.

LIVE THREAD: Swift Boat Veterans for Truth Press Conference on C-SPAN
www.freerepublic.com | May 4, 2004

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1129629/posts

Posted on 05/04/2004 4:58:36 PM PDT by Howlin

Q) What's the difference between mainstream left and right media?

A) Neither side would know a real story.

BUT if it's anti Bush or anti military they will let you know.

[JehngisKahn]

"Out of the billion dollars spent by the dem 501's... the $27 million the Swifties spent was guided by men in very high places."

The billions spent by the Dems was carefully guided too. Kerry's former campaign manager was in charge of the operation (Thunder Road) which was put together for that sole purpose.

[Defiant]

Don't be too secure. California used to elect Reagan and Bush I by comfortable margins. Southern California used to have enough conservatives in San Diego and Orange County to overcome San Francisco. LA was always a wash, with the valley voting GOP and the city voting Dim. Now, changing demographics have made LA completely lib, while Orange County and San Diego are far less conservative than before. Northern California has gone from 55 percent lib to about 75 percent lib. The GOP has written off the state since 1996.

Keep your eye on Northern Virginia, and don't let libs moving there change the character of the state.

[E.G.C.]

BTTT!!!!!!

[international american]

BUMP

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the ping!

[windchime]

Bump!

[Valin]

Bump.

As an aside
http://www.powerlineblog.com/
Paypal for Steve Gardner (corrected)

Tony Snow has provided us the information that so many of you have been asking for in order to help Steve Gardner:

Here's the info I have from Steve. He has a paypal account through his email: sgardner5@carolina.rr.com; there's also a snail-mail address: P.O. Box 908; Clover, SC 29710.
P.S. Tony has made me a hero at home. He's coming through on the autographed photo for Mrs. Trunk.

UPDATE: We have corrected the email address above; we had originally omitted the "s" in "sgardner5@carolina.rr.com." It now reads correctly.


Posted by The Big Trunk at 09:50 AM | Permalink | TrackBack (7)
Tony Snow to the rescue

Today's day brightener comes via Tony Snow and Griff Jenkins, the producer of the Tony Snow Show on Fox News Radio. Griff writes:

KUDOS to you guys on Steve [Gardner]! We've made it our goal to help Steve in some significant way this way by encouraging conservatives to commit acts of compassion and get Steve a job!!

Steve's on Tony right now - 09:35a ET - he's doing very well! You can listen to it live or hear the highlight recap later this afternoon at www.tonysnow.com!

Tony is singing your praises and will get powerline some plugs too!

Thanks.

Griff

Griff Jenkins
Producer
The Tony Snow Show
Fox News Radio

Any chance we can get the editorial staff over at the New York Post to pick up the ball?

Tony Snow writes:

Thanks for the great work on Steve Gardner. He told me off-air that he was down to $400 in savings before the story ran -- and still has about $900 in bills to pay. I'm urging listeners to practice compassionate conservatism by writing checks. I'm also directing them to your site via the Tony Snow Show website and my nascent blog, tonysnow.blogspot.com (those posts probably won't get up until the afternoon because I have to fly to NY as soon as I get off the air). Again, keep up the sensational work!

Best,

Tony Snow

Tony, is there any chance we could get an autographed photo for Mrs. Trunk?

Posted by The Big Trunk at 08:46 AM | Permalink | TrackBack (0)

Spread the word.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Good read, thanks!

[johnny7]

That's right we followed it since May... but it took off with the TV ads. The story was being talked about only on the web.

FOXNews aired part of the first commercial for news purposes when the MSM refused to even mention the Swift vets opposition to Kerry.

However they became involved with LaCivita and PFA, the bottom line is the word got out... and it hit hard!